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DynamoDB provides built-in support for cross regional data replication using a solution AWS calls global tables. This article shows how to build and run an application in Kubernetes that uses global tables to replicate data between regions. In the event of a regional disaster, a secondary Kubernetes cluster in a secondary region has all the data from DynamoDB replicated locally to continue operation. How global tables work A DynamoDB global table is a set of multiple replica tables....

Disaster events are one of the biggest challenges that a software organization can face. Natural disasters like earthquakes or floods, technical failures such as power or network loss, and human actions such as unauthorized attacks can disable an entire fleet of systems, leading to complete failure for a business. To deal with disaster scenarios requires a proactive approach to prepare and recover from failure. One of the key benefits of running in the cloud is how easy it is to run workloads in multiple regions....